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Visual Rhetoric, September, 2001

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Barbara Biesecker is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. She teaches and writes in the areas of contemporary rhetorical theory, feminist theory and criticism, and cultural studies, and is currently writing On the Lookout: Contemporary American (Visual) Rhetoric and the New Body Politic(s). Barbara-Biesecker@uiowa.edu

Carole Blair is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and Director of the UC Davis Washington Center. Together with Neil Michel, she has been working on a critical/historical project on twentieth-century U.S. commemorative art, so far publishing essays in various journals and anthologies on memorials of the latter part of the century.

Ron Burnett is President, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, former Director of the Graduate Program in Communications at McGill University, and the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary and Explorations in Film Theory (both published by Indiana University Press). Burnett has published over seventy essays in major international journals and given presentations all over the world. He is presently involved in setting up the New Media Innovation Centre in Vancouver and is the Chair of the Board of the Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology. rburnett@eciad.bc.ca

Kenneth Cmiel teaches cultural history at the University of Iowa. He is interested in the evolution of visual culture and the relationship between visual representation and knowledge. He is currently working on a genealogy of the information age and editing a book on the 1970s. Kenneth-Cmiel@uiowa.edu

Kevin Deluca is an assistant professor in Speech Communication and an adjunct professor in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. His major area of interest is how industrial cultures relate to the natural world and construct visions of "nature." To that end, he focuses on the role of images in the construction of wilderness and in the shaping of environmental politics. He has published articles on environmentalism, technology, the media, and postmodernism in several journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication and Communication Theory. He is the author of the book Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. kdeluca@arches.uga.edu

Anne Demo is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her published work on visual rhetoric and cultural politics appeared in Critical Studies in Media Communication and Women's Studies in Communication. Her current research addresses the relationship between territoriality and identity by examining modes of visualizing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Peter Ehrenhaus is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Theatre at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. His research centers on the continuing presence of Vietnam in the American political and cultural landscape, and on issues of cultural memory, commemoration and national identity. He is currently co-authoring (with A. Susan Owen) Watering the Dead: Film, Rhetoric, and Memory.

Oscar Giner is an actor, director, playwright and translator who specializes in the rediscovery of Native American ceremonials. He is a graduate of Yale College, and holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. Dr. Giner has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, the Universidad de Puerto Rico, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and at Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at Arizona State. He has worked extensively with the Native American and Hispanic bilingual communities of the Caribbean and the Southwest. His articles and translations have appeared in Theater, Tyuony, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. At present, he is working on a book on the ceremonial dance of the Caribbean Taínos and on a dramatic poem based on the Gunfight at the OK corral. OMGiner@aol.com

Bruce Gronbeck is the A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address. He works primarily in the area of rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests in contemporary television and politics. He teaches and writes about American cultural studies and the evolution of rhetorical thought, especially from the 18th century to the present. Bruce-Gronbeck@uiowa.edu

Hanno Hardt is John F. Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication Studies; he is also a professor of communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, most recently, In the Company of Media, Cultural Constructions of Communication, 1920s-1930s (2000); Picturing the Past, Media, History, and Photography (1999, edited with Bonnie Brennen), and Interactions. Critical Studies in Communication, Media, and Journalism (1998). Hanno-Hardt@uiowa.edu

Robert Hariman is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at Drake University. He is the author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power (Chicago, 1995). robert.hariman@drake.edu

John Louis Lucaites is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture, and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies, Indiana University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the relationship between rhetoric and social theory, including courses in rhetoric and ideology, history and memory, and visual rhetoric. His published works include Crafting Equality: America's Anglo African Word (U. of Chicago Press, with Celeste Condit). He edits a new book series at the University of Alabama Press titled "Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique." He is currently working on a book manuscript with Robert Hariman on the relationship between rhetoric, photography, and American political culture. lucaites@indiana.edu

Steven Mailloux teaches rhetoric, critical theory, and U.S. cultural studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the editor of Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism, co-editor of Interpreting Law and Literature, and author of Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction, Rhetorical Power, and, most recently, Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics. His current project is tentatively entitled "Rhetorical Paths of Thought."

James P. McDaniel  (Ph.D. The University of Iowa), Communication Department,
The University of Colorado, Boulder. "I have published work in journals including The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Mythosphere: A Journal for Image, Myth, and Symbol, Argumentation and Advocacy, and several edited volumes. Most of my current research explores intersections of history, theory, and practice of public discourse, particularly in the so-called American experience, and highlights the senses in which artful performances with language -- ways of speaking -- constitute social worlds. This orientation toward discourse applies to metaphysics as well as politics, economics and histories, I believe, and so for me the basic question is the implications of specific patterns of artistic composition for life -- in short, what is good to say, believe, and practice? In turn, my orientation comes to include "the visual" in terms of what is good to see and represent." James.Mcdaniel@colorado.edu

W. J. T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Professor in English and Art History at the University of Chicago. Professor Mitchell has dedicated much of his career to the study of the relationship between imagery and ideology in numerous articles, edited volumes, and books, including most prominently Iconology: Image, Text, and Ideology and Picture Theory (U of Chicago Press). He is editor of Critical Inquiry.

Thomas Nakayama is Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Arizona State University, Main Campus. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the Université de Mons-Hainaut in Belgium. He writes in the areas of critical intercultural communication, popular culture, and contemporary social issues, particularly race and sexuality. nakayama@asu.edu

A. Susan Owen is Professor in the Department of Communication & Theatre Arts at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. Her research centers on representations of women in popular media and on representations of cultural memory, warfare and trauma, and national identity. She is currently co-authoring (with P. Ehrenhaus) Watering the Dead: Rhetoric, Memory, and Representation. sowen@ups.edu

Ramona Liera Schwictenberg is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Graduate Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Wichita State University where she teaches Feminist Film Criticism, The American Woman in Popular Culture, and Theories of Feminism. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Communication Studies and has taught at the Universities of Massachusetts and Georgia. She has published in the areas of postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and media, and her edited book, The Madonna Connection (1993), has been translated into German and Japanese. Currently, she is researching beauty culture and issues of race and sexuality.

Raka Shome is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Arizona State University (West Campus). Her research is in the areas of postcolonial/transnational studies, critical race studies, feminist studies and popular culture. She has published essays in several journals such as Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Communication Theory, and the International and Intercultural Annual. Her current research consists of a co-edited special issue in Communication Theory on "Postcolonial Approaches to Communication" (forthcoming February, 2001) and a book project on the trans/nationalization of white femininity in popular culture. She recently won NCA's Karl Wallace Memorial Award (2000) for a part of this study. rshome@asu.edu

William C. Trapani is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa in Rhetorical Studies. His dissertation examines the intersection of Native American identity discourse and national identity. Research interests include the construction of public memory, especially in relation to sites of commemorative culture, and postcolonial analyses of the constitution of the "primitive" figure in globalization. btrapani@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

Barbie Zelizer is Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Zelizer’s work focuses on the relationship between the mass media and collective memory. She is the author of Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye. Her book, Remembering To Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye (U of Chicago Press) received the NCA’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award, the Tolerance Book Award from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the ICA 2000 Best Book Award. Her most recent book is an edited collection, Visual Culture and the Holocaust published by Rutgers University Press.

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